http://www.tryingmypatience.com Things that make my patience wear thin Thu, 17 Jul 2008 07:16:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en iPhone shortage - that is trying my patience When they finally release the iPhone where I live, it's out of stock within a few days, and just being gone over the weekend made me miss the whole thing. And why do loyal Apple customers such as myself get lumped in every Tom, ... http://www.tryingmypatience.com/2008/07/17/iphone-shortage/ Please don’t print this e-mail unless you really need to! - You are trying my patience. The statement at the end of e-mails Consider the environment before printing this e-mail has is now being rephrased as Please don’t print this e-mail unless you really need to! (Like I need another exclamation ... http://www.tryingmypatience.com/2008/06/30/please-don%e2%80%99t-print-this-e-mail-unless-you-really-need-to/ Expensive journeys to funerals - you are trying my patience. Why do people do this? Spend gobs of cash on sudden journeys around the globe, to come to someone's funeral? Who benefits from this? Certainly not the dead person. You better not spend a lot of money on coming to my funeral. ... http://www.tryingmypatience.com/2008/06/27/expensive-journeys-to-funerals/ People not paying attention to the movie you're watching – you are trying my patience. When watching TV it's somewhat acceptable to pay less attention. It is after all a machine of perpetual unintellectial superficial - imagined or real - entertainment. When watching a rented video you paid for it's stupid. You ... http://www.tryingmypatience.com/2008/05/25/people-not-paying-attention-to-the-movie-theyre-watching/ This is the new that - you are trying my patience. Pink is the new black, hetero is the new homo, humble is the new smug, right is the new left, et cetera. Really? Let me tell you something: Shut up is the new eloquent! http://www.tryingmypatience.com/2008/03/20/this-is-the-new-that/ Sony - you are trying my patience. Sony announced a while ago that they weren't going to allow pornography to be distributed on blueray. What's up with that? Is it the position they've taken to defend the last moral highground? No porn i hi-res? OK, you can watch the blind donkey molest the ... http://www.tryingmypatience.com/2008/03/18/no-porn-on-blueray-says-sony/ Easy Iron shirts, and the clerks in the store that you retail - you are trying my patience.   I'm out shopping and I see this white shirt with an Easy Iron sticker on it.   I'm curious as to if this means that the shirt is easy to iron or that it needs ... http://www.tryingmypatience.com/2008/01/16/easy-iron-shirt/ News headlines that aren't news - you are trying my patience From today's paper's front page: "7-year-old run over by schoolbus - died". How is that news? How? "7-year-old run over by schoolbus - lived". That would have been news! And immediately following the headline there's a highlighted quote from a representative from ... http://www.tryingmypatience.com/2007/12/05/news-headlines-that-arent-news/ E-mail senders enclosing the phrase Consider the environment before printing this e-mail at the end - you are trying my patience. OK, you sent me an e-mail. OK, I'm considering the environment. Now what? Maybe if you sent me shorter e-mails without unnecessary additions to your already abundant signature, it wouldn't take ... http://www.tryingmypatience.com/2007/11/08/consider-the-environment-before-printing-this-e-mail/ Dark chocolate - you are trying my patience. Yes! You! Dark chocolate! I hate you! Dark chocolate is not real chocolate! Oh, I know, the chocolate aficionados are saying the opposite. That dark chocolate is the only true chocolate. Nothing could be farther from the truth. I'll tell you what real chocolate is about. ... http://www.tryingmypatience.com/2007/10/02/dark-chocolate/